Eyes Without a Face
A surgeon (Pierre Brasseur) kidnaps young women in order to perform a face transplant on his disfigured daughter Christiane (Édith Scob), in this 1960 French horror film they should have […]
Tag Archives: France
Deep Fear
Green Room meets The Descent in this French horror flick about 3 friends (Sofia Lesaffre, Victor Meutelet and Kassim Meesters) celebrating their last day in Paris by venturing into the […]
Stan Getz: People Time
Stan getz the documentary treatment in Jean-Pierre Larcher’s 1993 tribute to the saxophonist who brought bossa nova to North America. Made 2 years after his death, this French doc describes […]
La Haine
Re-released at this depressingly apt point in time, 1995 French drama La Haine (Hate) follows three disaffected youths (Vincent Cassel, Hubert Koundé and Saïd Taghmaoui) over the course of a […]
Les Misérables (2019)
Not to be confused with that time Russell Crowe lied on his resumé about being able to sing, Les Misérables is a French drama based on a real-life case of police […]
Proxima
The cinemas are finally reopening with social distancing measures in place, the most effective being screening French dramas unlikely to draw a crowd. Proxima follows an astronaut (Eva Green) preparing […]
The Passion of Joan of Arc
In perhaps the earliest ever courtroom drama Joan, or Jeanne, of Arc (Renée Jeanne Falconetti) is on trial following her failed attempt to lead the French against the invading English, […]
Fantastic Planet
On a distant planet populated by the Draags, a race of giant blue aliens, humans are booth pets and pests. When one of their number, Terr (Jean Valmont, Eric Baugin), […]
Revenge
It’s quickly becoming a tradition at the Toronto International Film Festival for their “Midnight Madness” screenings to live up to the name by showing a French feminist horror movie that […]
120 BPM
Smoking, sex, protests, death… that’s right, there’s a new French film out! Set in the early ’90s but looking contemporary (as opposed to Call Me By Your Name which was […]
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